Is Lake Pontchartrain salt water or fresh water?
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:11 PM
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Is Lake Pontchartrain salt water or fresh water?
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:11 PM
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1. brackish (mixture of both)...n/t
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:13 PM
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6. That will make the recovery hard. Anything with metal may have to
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:15 PM
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8. A mixture (fresh & salt) would be an estuary, which is not a lake.
If my Geology 101 from 17 years ago serves me correctly. And, an estuary would be formed from an outflow of fresh water from inland meeting with the saltwater near the sea.
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:16 PM
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It is an arm of the sea, but with a very narrow inlet.
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:18 PM
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11. Nose out of the textbook....I lived there for 17 years...
its brackish. I don't care about the textbook definition. (sorry for the rant).
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:21 PM
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15. No need to apologize! :-)
I didn't interpret it as a rant, Tex. Hey, I'm not above being corrected. Guess this means I loose geek points or something? :-)
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:29 PM
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:12 PM
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2. Lakes are, by their nature, freshwater.... eot
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:13 PM
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4. Um, the Great Salt Lake?
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:19 PM
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12. There are always exceptions to the rule....
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:13 PM
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5. This one is different, it gets a fair amount of sea water coming into it.
So the other poster was right it is brackish.
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:14 PM
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7. It's not really a lake lake.
It's closer to a bay with a narrow mouth. The water is salty. I don't think it's drinkable.
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:12 PM
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3. The real question is, "Would you drink water from that lake"?
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:17 PM
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10. Brakish. The gulf and the fresh rivers mix in the lake.
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:19 PM
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13. More accurately, it's a bay, right?
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Wed Aug-31-05 04:20 PM
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14. It is named Lake potchatrain
in reality, it is a small bay with the mounths of many freshwater rivers coming together. It also connected to the Mississippi River (although not the primary source of dumping to the Gulf).
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